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  † 1.  = UNINGENUOUS a. Obs.

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1638.  Chillingw., Relig. Prot., I. iv. § 53. 220. Full of uningenious dealing with your adversary.

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1656.  Heylyn, Extraneus Vapulans, 20. Of Mr. Noye … (besides those uningenious passages of him which are still left standing) he telleth us also [etc.].

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  2.  Lacking in ingenuity.

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1769.  Burke, Obs. Late St. Nation, 8. These uningenious paradoxes and reveries without imagination.

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1787.  Bentham, Def. Usury, xiii. 183. The wounded pride of the uningenious herd.

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1888.  Doughty, Arabia Deserta, I. 244. Little cups … made, for the uningenious Arabs, in the West.

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